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<p>Scottish band Brògeal: ‘We feel very strongly about our country and its culture'</p>

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Scottish band Brògeal: ‘It’d be a cop-out to copy English bands’

The Pogues-inspired five-piece are at the forefront of a new wave of rock bands revitalising a music scene dominated by pop stars and mopey singer-songwriters. Ahead of a headline gig in east London, they talk to Roisin O’Connor about going wild on stage, the impact of the Scottish referendum on their songwriting and why they’d never try to sound like an English band

<p>Robin Campbell: ‘They always talk about Oasis and how big they are, but they can’t catch a cold outside of England, really’ </p>

the saturday interview

UB40: We should be as big as Oasis – we’ve sold twice as many records

<p>Chart attacks: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Liam Gallagher of Oasis and Ariana Grande</p>

the countdown

13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

<p>Band together: absconding singers is an issue groups have had to deal with throughout rock history </p>

In Focus

When swapping out your frontman works – and when it doesn’t

Interviews

<p>Babydaddy, Del Marquis and Jake Shears of the newly reformed Scissor Sisters</p>

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Scissor Sisters on their reunion tour: ‘We didn’t make sense anywhere but the UK’

<p>‘We’re making intellectual and factual improvements, but when the old basic instinct kicks in? We get pulled back into the cave’ </p>

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Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James: ‘I was the leader and never a victim’

<p>Dexter Holland and Noodles are the only remaining members of the original band </p>

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Pop-punk’s The Offspring: ‘That Backstreet Boys joke wasn’t our best’

<p>‘Trump would drastically change the character of our country – it’s scary that it’s this close’ </p>

Interview

John Legend: ‘It was risky for Taylor Swift to speak about politics’

Music Box

Boston trio Tiny Habits perform ‘Wishes’ for Music Box session

The Mysterines perform ‘The Last Dance’ for Music Box

Rita Ora performs new single ‘Ask And You Shall Receive’

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New Sensations

<p>Jalen Ngonda: ‘Love is the most human thing to talk about'</p>

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Singer Jalen Ngonda: ‘I don’t want to write something I can’t feel’

<p>Fat Dog are the latest band to burst out of the south London post-punk scene</p>

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Fat Dog: ‘Fans have tattoos of us now. My mum said they’re not well’

Interview

Angie McMahon: ‘I was in the graveyard and realised, “Oh, I’m gay”’

Reviews

<p>Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie still embraces hedonism in his recent output</p>

Primal Scream’s album Come Ahead is perfect for a baggy-limbed boogie

At 63, Bobby Gillespie can still channel the back-alley menace of a truant teen while embracing full-blown hedonism in his music

Bob Dylan, folk-rock’s finest songwriter, seems to exist beyond music

The longstanding gripe about Dylan’s tendency to deconstruct and rework his music until it’s virtually unrecognisable live is irrelevant tonight

Live music

<p>Elton John joins Dua Lipa on stage at the Royal Albert Hall</p>

Dua Lipa’s strange Royal Albert Hall show shouldn’t work – but it does

<p>David Gilmour performs as part of his six-night residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London, October 2024</p>

David Gilmour’s Royal Albert Hall residency is momentous and moving

Chester Bennington would approve of Linkin Park’s ferocious new era

<p>Chappell Roan scored a UK No 1 last year with ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ </p>

Chappell Roan’s live show offers maximalist splendour fit for stadiums

Retrospectives

playback

Nirvana’s Unplugged show is hallowed now but it almost never happened

in focus

Inside the turbulent journey to The Cure’s first album in 16 years

The bizarre history of the ‘final gig’, from Oasis to Pink Floyd

The hidden chapter of Joni Mitchell that shows her risk-taking side

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